How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)

Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by dunkelsten on Monday October 01, 2018 @03:30AM (#18110645)

Interestingly enough, this Torrence Boone guy working now at Google seems to have had lots of success keeping his #1 SERP clean. His LinkedIN tells us he worked as "Global CEO" at an unnamed agency before, he got zero recommendations, but is now Vice President at Google.

Now comes the interesting part: Google won't even autocomplete "torrence boone enfatico" — Shame upon him who thinks evil upon it...

If you've been wondering about the moral decline at Google, this is the kind of people they hired as top management.

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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by PeterisP on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:01AM (#18110773)

Is hiring privacy-conscious people a sign of moral decline?

I'd argue that it's a quite good idea to keep your LinkedIn profile looking exactly like that, unless you've decided that you need a good-looking profile right now for "advertising" because you're looking for a job, and you're going to use LinkedIn for that, which many job-seekers won't do.

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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by dunkelsten on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:31AM (#18110893)

If you'd be working in defence or infosec, I'd be with you about being a little more diligent about too many details in your employment history.

Then again, it's not like he's shy about clearly lining up all of his jobs before the Enfatico disaster or his Harvard/Stanford alma maters.

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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by sct202 on Monday October 01, 2018 @09:40AM (#18112384)

It doesn't auto complete on DDG either, so I don't know if that would even be like popular enough to auto complete? I just read the AdWeek article that came up first in it and it's from like 2010.

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